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Posted by mvlandsw on Saturday, April 22, 2006 4:56 PM
Walthers sells the numbered sizes in packs of two.                   Mark Vinski.
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Posted by seaphoto on Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:46 PM

Also try larger hardware stores - the real ones, not Home Depot or Lowes.  Most will have drawers with wire guage (#1 to 80) Letter, Fractional and sometime even Metric bits.  For smaller than # 80, you can do a search on the net, but these are both expensive and very fragile.  I have had some luck turning good quality entomology pins into small drills by carefully grinding and filing a "D" shape on the ends for holes in plastic and wood to be drilled by hand.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:04 PM
Also, if you have access to a Snap-On Tools dealer, you can 'em from them. The small bits are used to clear fuel injectors! That's where I originally got mine from.
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  • From: Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic of Illinois
Posted by Triarius on Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:00 AM
Try Small Parts, McMaster Carr, Grainger, and Brownells.

You are better off buying multiples of the same drill—they are fragile.

Ross Martinek A little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing… Wink

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Posted by qmiester on Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:23 AM
Try MSC Industrial Supply.  It'll take some digging (their paper catalogue is something like 5,000 pages) but you'll find that they can supply numbered drill bits down to #97 and digital and metric sizes even smaller.  Only problem is that as they get smaller, they get more expensive and can be bought in multiples of 12 only.
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  • From: Smithers, BC, Canada
Posted by ruddratt on Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:28 PM

As good a place as any to ask, modelbuilder, and yes, you can get them individually. If you go to Micro-Mark's web site, check out item #'s 15180 (#74), 15181 (#75), 15182(#76), 15183 (#77), and 15184 (#78). Each item # contains 6 bits. Happy modeling!

 

 

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Mini drill bits
Posted by modelbuilder on Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:05 PM
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but here goes. Can someone tell me where I can get SINGLE mini drill bits? I have seen multi packs on Micro Mark but I just want to replace the broken ones in my set. I need numbers 74, 75, 76, 77, and 78.

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